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In April 2011 the Columbia University Senate voted to welcome the ROTC program back on campus. [26] Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger signed an agreement to reinstate Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) program at Columbia for the first time in more than 40 years on May 26, 2011.
An academic inquiry into its slavery history, the Lemon Project, is underway. [104] Between 1760 and 1765, the Prince George House may have been used by English philanthropists, the Associates of Dr. Bray (named for Thomas Bray), to Christianize and educate local enslaved and free black children.
Around that time, historians of slavery such as Eric Foner also learned of the Records. A copy of his annotated Record of Fugitive Slaves [9] is available for viewing online at the Columbia University Library website. Foner also wrote a history of the Underground Railroad, Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (2015 ...
Columbia University will acknowledge its ties to slavery and racism by adding historical markers to four residence halls. As reported The post Columbia University acknowledges ties to slavery, KKK ...
Manisha Sinha is an Indian-born American historian, and the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. [1] She is the author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (2016), which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
STUDENTS ARE AWARE OF THE HISTORY. It's part of Columbia's lore, students taking part in this month's demonstrations point out — recognized by the school itself in commemorative anniversary ...
Fields was the first African American woman to earn tenure at Columbia University. She has also taught at Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Mississippi. She is widely known for her 1990 essay, "Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America."
After the bracero program, it became a law enforcement training area, began housing some city offices and a community center, and even served as a set for the 2000 film “Traffic.”